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Don Carpenter (1931-1995) was born in Berkeley, California. In 1947 he moved to Portland, where he finished high school, went to college, married, and became the father of two children. He wrote articles, stories, and screenplays. George Pelecanos, the author of fifteen crime novels set in and around Washington, D.C., lives in Maryland. His novel Right as Rain is currently in film development.
Tarmac-tough dialogue and road-novel deliquent action is customised with a tender intensity about both friendship and sexual passion. Often savage, never cynical, Carpenter brings gold to the grit. --Boyd Tonkin, @lt;i@gt;The Independent@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;i@gt;Hard Rain Falling@lt;/i@gt; is a unique read; violent, tender, inexorable, and melancholic; a beat-era book of disaffected young men devoid of @lt;i@gt;On the Road @lt;/i@gt;euphoria but more poignant and gripping for its fatalistic grounding. The small lives contained herein are indelible. --Richard Price@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; You always hear that Don Carpenter was a writer's writer, hugely admired by critics and novelists for his brilliance and precision, but every civilian reader I know was putty in his hands once that person opened any of his astonishing novels. He could be hilarious, and he could break your heart and he could write about ego and frailty as well as anyone on earth. I loved him like crazy. --A
